Your birth year
2006
Game Boy
19891980s
Game Boy is 17 years older than you
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Maker
- Nintendo
- Type
- Handheld console
- Debuted
- 1989
- Note
- Pea-soup green screen
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About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
Nintendo's Game Boy launched in 1989 with a tiny, smeary green screen that rivals mocked, then watched it outsell them all anyway. Its secret weapon was brutal practicality: it ran for ages on four AA batteries and survived being dropped, sat on, and possibly run over.
Bundled with the impossibly addictive Tetris, it turned bus rides, waiting rooms, and family road trips into portable gaming sessions. One famously survived a Gulf War bombing and still powered on, which is more than most gadgets can say.
The indestructible little brick that proved fun beats fancy graphics, one falling block at a time.
